roblab
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I seem to recall that some of those first owners who managed to get custom paint done in the factory pay $12k(?) for it, and Tesla still pulled the option because it wasn't enough to cover their costs.
Not sure it was costs. it took too long. The panels, before assembly, were loaded on a towable rack, hauled to another paint place, NOT the factory, painted, cured, and sent back. Then assembled. I have pictures of mine before, during and after. The charge was $12K, yup.
I had planned to get black (only had black, silver, white, red at first, and all paint stations at the factory were busy) and have it repainted, which you can still do. By the time they rip off chrome, mess up windows, pull all parts off, etc., having to replace, the repaint place was going to charge me -- also -- $12K. As color was more important than performance, that's what we did. For a week or two after ordering, I had visions of having to pay a total of maybe $80K for the car, and it got to where we just did not want to know. We were going for a Tesla and Tesla stock was OK and we weren't broke yet. It ended faaaaaar north of $80K.
Don't know how ggr got his abalone shell pink, but I was the first. By the time Tesla had done a half dozen, they felt it was more trouble than it was worth.
I suppose it could be possible that when they aren't so constrained they might offer custom colors again.
Bowing to Bonnie, agreed. It is cost, no matter where it comes from.